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Re: [lojban-beginners] Re: Songs and poetry in Lojban
la'o me. Erik Natanael Gustafsson .me cusku di'e
Thank you! That is very helpful! I've taken a look at the poem and I'll
see what I can do with it. The only thing I really don't understand is
the te in "te zu'e tu'a lo cersai". What does it do?
{te zu'e} is a preposition meaning "for" as in the intended goal of an
action. Without {te} it would just be {zu'e}, which specifies an actor.
You can apply {se}, {te}, {ve}, {xe} to prepositions just like you can
apply them to predicates. {zu'e} is based on {zukte} (it takes the x1),
while {te zu'e} is the x3 of {zukte}; in other words the {te zukte}.
Thus, {te zu'e tu'a lo cersai} says that {tu'a lo cersai} is a {te
zukte}, a goal.
mi'e la selpa'i mu'o
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